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Inscribed on the front pastedown endpaper: "To Emily Williams/ from her friend/ T H J/ Exeter Oct 29th, 1883." This ballad, dedicated "to the working man, and to all who sympathize with his difficulties and seek his welfare" speaks against drunkenness and excess. Another edition was published with "A temperence ballad" as a subtitle